The analyzing of methodoric perceptions of the argentina tango dance trainers and dancers in Izmir for dance concept

Purpose: This study aims to uncover how dance is understood by the composers, what it means to them, its position and importance in their lives. Instruments and Methodology: Universe of this study is composed of the instructers and dancers of the Argentina tango branch of the Turkish Dancing Sports Federation, sampling is composed of the dancing partners who are located in Izmir city borders. (n=114) Study took place by voluntary involvement of 123 Argentina tango composers based in Izmir city in spring term ( march-april period) of 2018-19 educational year. However, 9 of the results could not be used due to incomplete or unreadable data. Study includes 114 activity document from 61 female and 53 male participants. A measurement form has been developed by the researchers in order to find out the mental imageries of the dancing instructers and dancers related to the concept of dance. In direction of this study's aim, in the initial section of the form which is developed to reach the participants' conceptual world, it is requested that they complete "Dancing is like ................; because............." by focusing on one single mental imagery (or a metaphor) In order to evaluate the data from this study, "content analysis" method has been accomplished. Findings: As per results of the study, most frequently used metaphor category is "emotional" (f=24, 21,1%), least used metaphors are "socialising" and "global" (in order, f=3, 2,6% f=3, 2,6%) The most used metaphor is "Life" which was used for 21 times. Result: As a result of evaluating all metaphoric concepts together, it is identified that dancing makes people emotionally happy, individuals by dancing try to fullfill all their life cases which they conciously or unconciously feel lack of, dancing has a healing power on people and more than all it is a meaning quest element. It is observed that the aims of the participants while dancing are in actual fact the metaphoric concepts they had selected.